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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57865	A vindication of the Church of Scotland being an answer to five pamphlets, the titles of which are set down after the preface / by the author of the former vindication in answer to ten questions.	Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.	1691 (1691)	Wing R2232; ESTC R22719	77,003	86

hinder the other for Subordinata non pugnant nor doth it derogate from the sufficiency of Scripture as our Rule to say that some more may be required in some exigents to particularize what the Scripture doth in general hold forth Even the zeal of the Noble Lord that he is pleased to set as the Butt of his Malice this Author reproacheth when it appeareth either for the service of his Prince or for purging the Church of such as were a reproach to her while he doth expose my Lords care to get the Council to meet at its appointed times But I give too much to his impertinencies by thus notioing them § 22. He will now pag. 38 Return to his thread which he had broken off to reach the Earl of Crawford and he blameth the Council for allowing the People to Cite the Ministers who had not Read and Prayed before the Council What harm was in this May not any of the Kings Subjects make complaint of breaking of his Law This is not to be compared with what his Party did when in Power who made Souldiers Judges and Executioners of some of the Laws against Nonconformists Yea committed the power of Life and Death to many of them He telleth that immoralities were libelled tho' the Council Judged nothing but not reading and Praying yet the Lybels were kept in retentis Ans. The Council Acted Rationally and with Moderation in this They could not reject Libels which they had called for by their Proclamations and if any thing was in them that was not ejus fori they passed that without Notice Is it not ordinary to all Courts to pass Sentence on one Substantial part of a Libel sufficiently proved tho' other parts of it be neither relevant nor proved What he surmiseth of Church Judicatories sustaining these Libels as sufficiently proved already is refuted by the Event no such thing hath been done And it might have been silenced by the known Principle and way of Presbyterians who are against such Illegal Actings But we must be made black by his evil surmisings when he can find no other way to do it Every thing Acted by the Government is evil in this Gentlemans Eyes Wherefore a third Proclamation falleth under his Lash whereby Heretors in a Parish tho not living in it Sheriffs and their Deputies Magistrates of Burghs Members of Parliament in their respective Bounds might Cite Ministers who had not Read and Prayed What harm in all this May not such call for Justice against Offenders The Council were still Judges whether any offence were committed or not But now that he is in a quarrelling strain even the Nations humbling themselves before God for Sin and Fasting and Praying to implore his Mercy stirreth the Choller of this Momus His 1. Imputation to it is It was designed for a Choaking Morsel Who made him the Judge of Hearts and Designs It was designed for humbling the Nation and Imploring Mercies from the God of Heaven And that it was not designed as a Tryal of Mens Compliance is evident from this That he cannot Instance in any Person that ever suffered for not Observing it But our being thus reproached is but what better then we have before met with from such as he is Psal. 69.10 When I wept and Chastened my Soul with Fasting this was to my reproach Next he blameth this Fast That it was on the Sabbath Day We deny not but that another day of the Week is better for Fasting But we know no Law of God that is broken by Fasting that Day whatever he or any other think in the contrary When he shall please to bring his strong Reasons for his Opinion they shall I hope be considered The Reason why that Day was pitched upon was it was Harvest and a very bad and dangerous Season and it was not fit to take People off their Work on a Week day when the loss of a day might have hazarded their Corn And People would have been under Temptation to neglect the Solemn Duties of the day Further he chargeth the Proclamation for the Fast with bad Grammar and a good stock of Nonsense and for Unministring and Unchristning the whole Regular Clergy This is the Title that the Episcopal Ministers use to Dignify themselves with tho' now they walk not by the Rule of the Law as formerly they did deviate from that of the Scripture and them who owned them If he had pleased to tell us what Words or Expressions in the Proclamation are thus faulty we should have treated him as a Disputant but seeing he thought not that fit we must entertain his Discourse as Hezekiah commanded the Jews to do by that of his Patron Rabshakeh such Language is not to be answered We find nothing in that Paper but what is good Grammar and good Sense It may be some parts of it contain such Spiritual matter and in which the inward Exercises of the Soul is so concerned as a Man who is alien from the Life of God doth not understand and therefore may count it Non-sence I suppose he will reckon this to be cant But it is not mine but the Apostles Eph. 4.18 That it complaineth of the withholding of the Spirit in the work of Conversion is not meant of Episcopal times only tho' then it was observable But he and Men of his Temper use not to trouble themselves with such thoughts and therefore they think strange that others do That two Ministers of Edinburgh were deprived for it that is only for not keeping the Fast is absolutely false The story of the Laird of Brodie acting as Accuser and also as Judge is like the rest of his Forgeries or Hear-sayes § 23. This Epistler now telleth us pag. 41. That he hath done with his History what he next falleth upon is a Recapitulation of what he had said and determining what shall be for the future viz. That none of the Episcopal Clergy shall be spared but all who entered by Presentation from a Patron or a Collation from a Bishop must be turned out This his Prediction he Establisheth on several Grounds such as they are One is a nameless Counsellor said to his Cusing a Minister who also must not be named that he was glad that their Minister had not complied for the Resolution was that none of the Episcopal Clergy should be spared The strength of this Argument lieth on this that none can find out the truth or falshood of the Anticedent viz. Whether such a thing was said or not Yet I am sure it is easie to deny the consequence for all Counsellers are not Infallible nor know the mind of all the rest where never any conclusion about the matter was made at the Board as in this case is certain His other Argument is some Argyle Ministers were put out for not Reading and Praying and on after-complyance they have the offer of other Churches but must not Re-enter to their former charge Ans. There was reason enough for this from the